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The fellow in the rear had to stay there for all but the longest runs. Weighing and humping twenty pound sacks to the rear delivery entrance of the up scale homes with fancy parlor stoves. He probably had to make do with a pot belly and soft coal.

By this time I would think those big fender-mounted headlamps were electric but they sure look like acetylene lamps. Four wheel drive sure would be the thing to get coal down the chute in terrible storms and inclined driveways.

[These headlamps are electric (note the wire); acetylene lamps on a FWD truck can be seen here. - Dave]

Indeed, I mess around with Stanleys before and after the addition of a dynamo.

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